#ill

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#al capone #capone #superpower #villains

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you turned on the faucet and water still came out... It was still good when you raised your arm for a cab and one came towards you out of the flow like magic. You did things that were supposed to end you and found they were only things that changed you. It was a disappointment and a revelation and a bereavement and a new thrilling nudity. It was the basic prosaic obscenity: You kept going. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#killing #murder #remorse #change

RVM Thoughts for Today - "Today, I will treat the day as a special Present. I will not think about yesterday & not worry about tomorrow. ↗

— Rvm

#making-life-fulfilling #motivational #inspirational

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#jealousy #villette #jealousy

When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are. ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#challenge #dedication #inspirational #motivational #perfection

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#once #provide #recount #them #will

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#begun #broken #friendships #never #off

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go